Date |
Crowe’s life |
Major paintings |
1824 |
Crowe born on 3 October at 141 Sloane Street, London |
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1826 |
Crowe family moves to La Capelle, near Boulogne |
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1827/8 |
Crowe family moves to Paris |
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1839 |
Enrols as pupil in Paul Delaroche’s atelier |
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1843 |
Travels to Rome with Delaroche. Meets Jean-Léon Gérôme |
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1844 |
Returns to London |
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1845 |
Begins working for W M Thackeray. Accepted as student in the Royal Academy Schools |
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1846 |
Master Prynne searching Archbishop Laud’s pockets in the Tower, first RA exhibit |
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1847 |
Participates in competition for decoration of Houses of Parliament |
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1849 |
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Works with Thackeray on Louis Marvy’s Sketches after English Landscape Painters |
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1851-1852 |
Becomes art critic on the Daily News. Works with Thackeray on Esmond. |
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1852-1853 |
Goes to America with Thackeray as his secretary |
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1853 |
Mother dies in Paris |
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1854 |
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A Slave Sale in Charleston, South Carolina; and After the Sale: Slaves going South |
1856 |
Returns to London |
Boswell’s Introduction to the Literary Club, sold to art dealer Mr Gambart |
c.1858 |
Joins the Hogarth Club |
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1859 |
Begins working as art inspector for the Department of Science and Art |
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1861 |
Joins the Reform Club |
Slaves Waiting for Sale – Richmond, Virginia |
1862 |
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De Foe in the Pillory, sold for £400 on first day of exhibition. International Exhibition, London: Pope’s Introduction to Dryden (1858) exhibited |
1863 |
Founder member of the United Arts Club |
Produces cartoons for mosaics to decorate South Court of South Kensington Museum. Brick Court, Middle Temple, April 1774 |
1864 |
‘Honorary member’ of the St John’s Wood Clique. Photographed by David Wilkie Wynfield |
Luther Posting his Theses on the Church Door of Wittenburg |
1867 |
Exhibits at the inaugural exhibition of cabinet paintings in oil at the Dudley Gallery. Appointed as an Art Referee at the South Kensington Museum |
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1868 |
Father dies |
Produces lunette for decoration of Competition Gallery in South Kensington Museum. Mary Stuart, February 8th 1586 |
1869 |
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Shinglers |
1870-1871 |
Gérôme stays with Crowe in London during the siege of Paris |
Friends |
1872 |
First recorded Royal Academy election involving Crowe |
Tiff |
1874 |
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The Dinner Hour, Wigan |
1875 |
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A Sheep-Shearing Match; and The French Savants in Egypt, 1798 |
1876 |
Elected Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) |
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1877 |
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Sanctuary |
1881 |
Begins work as examiner of students’ artwork at South Kensington |
‘Sandwiches’; and Explosion at the Cashmere Gate at Delhi, Sept. 14, 1857 |
1885 |
Participates in debate in The Times over nudity in art |
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1887 |
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Convicts at Work, Portsmouth |
1888-1889 |
Spends autumn and winter in Aberdeen |
Nelson Leaving England for the Last Time |
1891 |
The Founder of English Astronomy |
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1893 |
With Thackeray in America published |
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1894 |
Most spring inspecting trips ceased |
The Brigs of Ayr |
1895 |
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Thomas Carlyle Looking at the Duke of Buccleuch’s Miniatures |
1897 |
Thackeray’s Haunts and Homes published |
Trial for Bigamy |
1898 |
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James II at La Hogue, May 1692 |
1899 |
Last sibling, Eugenie, dies |
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1900 |
Last autumn inspecting trip |
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1907 |
Last year of examining work at South Kensington |
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1908 |
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Mendelssohn – last exhibit at RA |
1910 |
Retired from the Royal Academy. Died on 12 December. Buried at Kensal Green cemetery on 15 December |
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